This set — the 61st London set — and the four to follow capture some of the delights of autumn, in and around my home in Brockley, in south east London, and also including Deptford and Greenwich. This first set, however, returns to my local park, Hilly Fields, on a hill commanding wonderful views of Blythe Hill, looking over to the wooded expanse of Forest Hill, where the last vestiges remain of the Great North Wood that once covered most of south London. There are also glimpses to be had of Canary Wharf and the O2, as well as views over Blackheath to Shooters Hill, down to Lewisham and all the way out to Kent.

I posted a set of photos taken on Hilly Fields three weeks ago, taken on a damp autumn day full of rich earthy colours, and this set captures a return visit two weeks ago, late on a Saturday afternoon, when the conditions were perfect for a rich, golden, autumnal sunset, and all the intense, burnished shades and long shadows that come with it.

For myself, and other inhabitants of Brockley — and, I believe, for many others who visit this part of London — Hilly Fields is a very special place, and a reminder of the important work undertaken by philanthropists in the second half of the 19th century. What is now the beautiful Hilly Fields park used to be fields, which were only saved from developers by activists and reformers including Octavia Hill, one of the founders of the National Trust.

This is never lost on me, as I contrast the progressive impulses of that time with the new barbarism prevalent in the present, when, 33 years after Margaret Thatcher embarked on a mission to roll back the social advances — and the march towards equality — of the previous hundred years, her successors, seeped in a selfishness that even she couldn’t have imagined, are pushing to remake Britain as a wretched place for everyone except the very rich, in which all the reforming zeal of the last 150 years is swept away.

Those of you who follow my work know that these are themes I will be revisiting very soon, but for now I hope you enjoy Hilly Fields, on a mild evening in November, radiant with an autumnal sun.

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Investigative journalist, author, campaigner, commentator and public speaker. Recognized as an authority on Guantánamo and the “war on terror.” Co-founder, Close Guantánamo, co-director, We Stand With Shaker. Also, singer and songwriter (The Four Fathers) and photographer. Email Andy Worthington